New Dumbledore information from PS/SS

[Risti <pretty_feet51@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51717

After about a month's vacation from the world of HP(yes, I needed to 
clear my mind, focus on some other aspects of life, and just 
generally find some sanity for awhile) I decided that a road trip 
wtih some friends was the perfect time to reread the series yet 
again.  Am I ever glad I decided to step back, because what did I 
find?  Surely you don't mean *new* canon information that could help 
to solve one of the BIGGEST mysteries of the series?

Now, anyone who remembers some of my other posts, such as message 
44205 knows that I am obsessed with figuring out the connection 
between Dumbledore and Voldemort.  Here is what I believe to be some 
pretty interesting canon about that very connection:

(this is in the debriefing that Harry and Dumbledore do in the 
hospital at the very end of the book)
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'But why couldn't Quirrell touch me?'
'Your mother died to save you.  If there is one thing VOldemort 
cannot understand, it is love.  He didn't realize that love as 
powerful as your mother's for you leaves itso wn mark.  Not a scar, 
no visible sign ... to have been loved so deeply, even though the 
person who loved *us* is gone, will give *us* some protection 
forever.  It is in your very skin...'(PS, p216, Canadian softcover 
edition)
****

Now, perhaps it was just a simple use of the plural pronoun, but I 
can't help but wonder at Dumbledore's usage of it.  Could it be that 
Dumbledore is also somehow protected by the force of love from 
Voldemort?  Could that be the reason that Voldemort feared him?  I'm 
not talking about the love of Lily, although I suppose it is a 
possibility.  I see it as someone else loving Dumbledore enough to 
perhaps even die for him that caused Voldemort to fear him.

~Risti, who has jumped back into the world of HP with both feet as 
this idea helped rejuvinate the plot bunnies for her Dumbledore's 
Life Epic FF...